Heinke
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Heinke (in full C.E. Heinke, submarine engineer and similar) was a diving gear making firm in London. It has now closed down.
A Prussian immigrant Gottlif Frederick Heinke founded the firm in London in 1819 as a coppersmiths. His son Charles Edwin Heinke started making standard diving gear around 1844. He made improvements which were copied by Siebe Gorman and other firms.
Some time after World War II the firm started making scuba gear.
In the 1950's they made diving masks and swimfins with the tradename "Hans Hass", and the Delta drysuit and the Dolphin wetsuit, both of rubber on a stockinette base. [1]
In 1961 Heinke was taken over by Siebe Gorman. For a while afterwards, products were trademarked "Siebe-Heinke", then the Heinke name disappeared.
See http://www.divingheritage.com/heinke.htm for more information.
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